Memory

Understanding; a capacity to make contracts, a will, or to commit a crime, so far as intention is necessary. Memory is sometimes employed to express the capacity of the understanding, and sometimes its power. When we speak of a retentive memory, we use it in the former sense; when of a ready memory, in the latter. Shelf. Lun. Introd.

29, 30.

The reputation, good or bad, which a man leaves at his death. This memory, when good, is highly prized by the relations of the deceased, and it is therefore libellous to throw a shade over the memory of the dead, when the writing has a tendency to create a breach of the peace, by inciting the friends and relations of the deceased to avenge the insult offered to the family.

4 Term R. 126; 5 Coke, 125; Hawk. P. C. bk. 1, c. 73, § 1.